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Magistrate the necessary new drainage works were, after some little
delay, carried out satisfactorily, and the costs incurred, amounting to
6s. 6d., were paid in due course by the defendant.
The five other summonses were taken out against the Vendors
of Adulterated Milk upon certificates given by me as Public Analyst.
The prosecution was successful in each of these cases, but the
penalties imposed were very small. Three of the defendants were
fined only 20s. each, with 2s. costs; and the other two, 10s. each,
with 2s. costs. In three of the cases I certified that the samples
analysed contained 12 per cent. of added water, that in the fourth
sample there was 13 per cent., and in the fifth as much as 23 per
cent. of added water.
DWELLINGS OF THE POOR.
Of the 76 Houses closed as unfit for human habitation in 1884
by order of the Magistrate 14 houses only remain closed, 7 in Elliott's
Place, and 7 in Providence Place.
• It is, I believe, still contemplated, notwithstanding the delay, to
make such alterations and improvements in the houses in Elliott's
Place as will render them when completed again suitable for habitation.
In the case of Providence Place it is more than probable that several
of the houses will be pulled down and the ground absorbed in the
adjoining properties, three houses with their sites having already been
incorporated with the premises immediately contiguous to them.
REGISTRATION OF HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS OR
OCCUPIED BY MEMBERS OF MORE THAN ONE FAMILY
(29 & 30 Vic. cap. 90, sec. 35 & 37 & 38 Vic. cap. 89, sec. 47).
Since the Vestry made the Regulations with respect to Houses let
in Lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, in
February, 1885, 239 Houses have been placed on the Register by the
Vestry up to the 25th of March, 1887, and 48 more have been
added since.